[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

According to sources close the group, the American Leadership Project, a pro-Hillary Clinton independent expenditure campaign affiliated with two California Majority Report publishers, is increasing its media buy in the battleground state of Indiana by another $200K today –- for a total spent of $1.1 million. The Hoosier State's Tuesday, May 6 primary is probably the most contested race left in the election calendar, with Clinton currently holding a narrow but statistically significant lead over Senator Barack Obama based on the aggregate Pollster.com numbers.

by Rick Jacobs [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Cross-posted from Huffington Post

Last year at this time, CNN ran a piece about the Courage Campaign's petition drive to move the California presidential primary forward from June to February 5th. Many doubted that our premise would be born out, namely that by having California competitive in the presidential primary, we might actually have a say in policy formulation and make long term political alliances that would benefit the state, not just export money to finance campaigns in other states.

Put simply, we were right. After the tumult of Iowa and New Hampshire and Michigan, followed Saturday by a first-ever caucus in Nevada and then an election in South Carolina, California has become a key "battleground" state for all of the leading candidates. While no one, least of all the pollsters, has a clue what will happen, the people of California have already won.

I remember four years ago, when as the Chair of the Dean Campaign in California, we could but sit and watch as Iowa and New Hampshire and then Arizona and New Mexico, decided that John Kerry would be the nominee. Not this year.

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